Analysis Of Emory Douglas: The Black Panther Party

“The manhood of the slave is conceded. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or write.” Here he then provides facts in order to let the audience connect the relationship of the unfairness blacks live with. Douglas cannot say it enough on how blacks are humans, yet there are laws preventing blacks the rights of a human even if the general population states they are. Using this strategy on the audience, they are able to see the wrongs on their own and realize themselves how the system is

uses figurative language and rhetorical appeal to appeal to his audience. On page 4 it states, “Like a boil that can never be cured so long as its covered up but must be opened with all of its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” This detail explains that King uses similes to compare racial injustice with a boil to show that instead of covering them up, they should be exposed in order for them to be fixed. If the racial injustice is hidden from the nation and its people, it can’t be fixed and it will continue to go on. So, the people must take direct action for there to be change in America. It also states on page 8, “I doubt that you would so quickly commend the policemen if you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you were to see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys…” This detail demonstrates that King uses pathos when describing the cruel treatment of the black people in jail. He does this to make the black Americans angry at the oppressors, more specifically the policemen, to make them take matters into their own hands. They would do this by joining Martin Luther King Jr.’s cause, which is the Civil Rights Movement. King uses figurative

Because the Black Panthers felt society and government were withholding African-Americans from social progress, they took some matters into their own hands. They promoted more just

         When Douglas was born into slavery, grew up in the South engaged in heavy slave labor, torture, several times nearly lost his life. However, his strong will in difficult circumstances, assiduous self-culture struggle. Slaveholders see good discipline, he handed him over to a special tame slaves and whites - Covey discipline. Douglas decided to revolt after being repeatedly beaten severely beaten discipline who scared the other no longer afraid to fight him.

The Black Panther Party was the most influential revolutionary group during the Civil Rights movement era. The BPP became a very strong political power. It influenced many government decisions and attracted the mass media. Yet, due to a number of reasons the BPP eventually collapsed. The Black Panther Party came to its demise due to government operations against it, various mistakes by the Party itself, and by short comings by its own leaders.

Who would know that a ragtag group of a bunch of blacks would turn out to be the most influential black rights movement? A group so controversial that there are many perspectives of how the general public views them. The Black Panther Party strikes up an immense amount of controversy despite their inactivity of almost 35 years. From the law enforcement’s perspective, The Black Panther Party were viewed as radical criminals who randomly murdered innocent police officers. Though from the standpoint of many blacks of the time, they were viewed as heroes and martyrs, those who died and cared for their community. As James McBride vibrantly describes in his memoir, The Color of Water, his relationship toward The Black Panther Party was

History is violent! Before human be able to reach to the society with humanities and equalities, the world, in general, and the United States, in particular, had gone through the darkest era of the slavery system. This system in which humans were tortured and were stolen labor cruelly from their own specie exists really long time before it was abolished. However, there was one man, who was born a slave himself, managed to run away from the slave’s life, to stand up against those brutal mistreat and to become the most important key in the path of the slavery system’s extinction. That man is Frederick Douglas. There were many factors enabled him to escape from slavery, to be an active abolitionist, and to be one

Many events in contemporary history shed light on how great and grave the issue of racism is in the United States. Writings from the beginning of the country also show the struggle of racism and the effects it had on the religious, political and social aspects of the culture. In very recent days, protests across the country highlight the American peoples’ ability and right to a civil protest as well as prove that racism is still an issue that must be dealt with. The themes in the works Resistance to Civil Government by Henry Thoreau and What to the Slave is the Fourth of July by Frederick Douglass are highlighted and proven relevant by the recent tragic police shootings, civil protests and the loss of innocent lives in Louisiana, Minnesota

Founded on October 15th 1966 in Oakland, California, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was an organization opposed to police brutality against the black community. The Party’s political origins were in Maoism, Marxism, and the radical militant ideals of Malcolm X and Che Guevara. From the doctrines of Maoism they saw the role of their Party as the frontline of the revolution and worked to establish a unified alliance, while from Marxism they addressed the capitalist economic system, and exemplified the need for all workers to forcefully take over means of production (Baggins, Brian). Mao was important to the Black Panthers because of his different stance on Marxism-Leninism when applied to Chinese peasants. The founders of the Black

The Black Panther Party, therefore, ventured to adopt a new strategy: revolution. The Party was strongly influenced by the rising Black Power movement, which stressed dignity, self reliance and racial unity. Robert F. Williams, an early Black Power leader,

The Black Panthers aren’t talked about much. The Panthers had made a huge difference in the civil rights movement. They were not just a Black KKK. They helped revolutionize the thought of African Americans in the U.S.

A City Where Black Power Won: The Origins of the Black Panther Party on College Campuses

Imagine it is the 1960’s: conflict in Vietnam had sparked widespread protest at American college campuses, people all over the country were reading the The Feminine Mystique and fighting for increased equality among the sexes, and the Civil Rights Movement was at its peak. African Americans throughout America were uniting for the common cause of equality, however differing ideology and beliefs regarding how equality could be achieved divided them. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X rose as prominent leaders in the fight against racial inequality, the latter typically credited with the development of more violent methodology which excluded white involvement and conceived the movement of “Black Power.” The Black Panthers, members of a political party formed by college students Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, are typically associated with the idea of black power and the legacy of Malcolm X despite the fact that he had died a year prior to the party’s founding. While the idea of black power is easily and mis-conceivably associated with the idea of black supremacy and violence, The Black Panther Party primarily sought a spot for African Americans next to that of whites, not above. The Black Panther Party, despite its violent appearance and legacy, made a positive influence on American history through its platform based on equality, human rights, and patriotism.

Frantz Fanon was a Martinique-born, Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post colonial studies, Marxism, and critical theory. He was born in 1925 and died in 1961. The quote above is from Fanon’s first book, Black Skin, White Masks (1952), originally titled as “An Essay for the Disalienation of Blacks.” Fanon, in this book is providing a prognosis about the lived experience of the black man. He is concerned with describing the place that is held by blacks in the mid 20th century and illustrates the issues of race and racism and to point the reader toward a better and free future for all men. The quote above shows how oppression gives rise to ways of being. Fanon’s experience and the background of the time period he was living in justifies his hostility when he argues that the black man is constantly trying, but never fully accomplishing, to be white and to integrate into the white man’s world. In this essay I will show the three phases Fanon goes through to reach this conclusion: to escape his blackness,

Frederick Douglass is a remarkable figure when it comes to describe and expose the outcome of the oppression in the black race since memorable times seen and experienced through the centuries expressed in slavery, racism and mistreat. In “The Meaning of Fourth of July for the Negro”, Douglass states the values of not only a race but a human being in his speech, by allowing himself to represent and describe the meaning behind it by using juxtaposition, irony and imagery to fight